On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:40:29AM -0500, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:58:59PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Julian> No policy yet. But they are intended as metapackages which > > Julian> contain no code, > > > > So I'd say they are the glue between related packages, for a rather > > wide interpretation of glue. > > I would call it a _very_ wide interpretation of glue. For example, > task-devel-common doesn't depend on anything; it only suggests and > recommends. > > I'm also wondering how a naive user would choose between, e.g., samba > and task-samba, or gnome-network and task-gnome-net.
I uploaded a task-laptop. I depended on the obvious -- apm, pcmcia, anacron. I wanted to let toshiba and thinkpad users benefit so I added a suggests for laptop specific packages. Yes, apt will miss them, but we WILL need to have a GUI of some form. apt is worthless if you do not know the package name. Currently dselect is the only real choice. Limiting task packages because a tool can not handle them is silly.
